JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association
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Previous studies have shown increasing prevalence of diabetes in China, which now has the world's largest diabetes epidemic. ⋯ Among adults in China, the estimated overall prevalence of diabetes was 10.9%, and that for prediabetes was 35.7%. Differences from previous estimates for 2010 may be due to an alternate method of measuring hemoglobin A1c.